All posts Behind the scenesRecommended reading: Forbidden loveTuesday 21 April 2020The National Archives exhibition With Love is currently closed but if you wish to...Records and researchJohn Thomson: Victorian pioneer of photojournalismFriday 17 April 2020The copyright records held at The National Archives are a fantastic source for the...Behind the scenesExploring our family history resourcesThursday 16 April 2020The documents in our collection can play a vital role in piecing together your...Records and researchWar at Sea: Privateers and Prize PapersTuesday 14 April 2020When I think of war at sea, my mind turns to images of Trafalgar...Records and research‘Last term my rolls were painted very ill’: An early modern poem hidden among the records of the King’s BenchMonday 13 April 2020Hidden away in the King’s Bench plea roll for Trinity term 1627, however, is...Archives and archivistsDon’t get trampled in the online rush: Advice for making archive collections accessible during the shutdownFriday 10 April 2020In a rush to digital, important things sometimes get forgotten....Behind the scenesSending the giant to sleepThursday 9 April 2020On Tuesday 17 March 2020, The National Archives closed its doors to visitors for...Behind the scenesResearching while the archive is closed: Visual collectionsThursday 9 April 2020While The National Archives is closed, nobody can research using original documents. This, of...Archives and archivistsHidden messages in vintage paintingsWednesday 8 April 2020I expect we have all looked at old paintings in country houses or galleries,...Records and research‘For freedom alone’: The Declaration of Arbroath from English recordsMonday 6 April 2020April this year marks the 700th anniversary of the so-called Declaration of Arbroath, a seminal...Records and researchOperation Sandstone: Surveying Britain’s Cold War beachesFriday 3 April 2020On 16 September 1952, S J Bassett of the Naval Intelligence Department filed a...Archives and archivistsHow to date family photographsThursday 2 April 2020When photographs are passed down through generations of families, sometimes the stories of the... « 1 … 45 46 47 48 49 … 169 »